Example sentences of "for [v-ing] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are also indebted to the Minister and the Whips for allowing us adequate time in which to adduce our arguments . |
| 2 | It is argued , by many people , that this is an unacceptable price to pay for allowing our domestic cats to roam freely . |
| 3 | Faced with the possibility that IBM Corp is to reduce the royalties for using its Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking code , and despite its membership of the APPI Forum backing the proposed open Advanced Peer-to-Peer Internetworking standard , Westborough , Massachusetts-based Proteon International Inc believes that APPN is set to become the industry standard . |
| 4 | Mr Greenway , 58 , correctwas accused of accepting foreign holidays and gifts in return for using his parliamentary influence to help an Austrian company win British Rail contracts . |
| 5 | In the meantime , here are some tips for using our old friend the male condom . |
| 6 | That chance arose in 1988 when Colorgraphic acquired P&W as a vehicle for building its direct mail printing business north of the border . |
| 7 | Only the Queen , with a total annual income from the state of £475,000 , came out at better than American rates — $1,330,000 — but two-thirds of that sum was specifically for maintaining her enormous household . |
| 8 | This means that , if you do pursue an appeal , you should not overlook any relevant time limits for pursuing your statutory rights . |
| 9 | Drenching even a few rooms , with foam and then a chemical spray seems to me a high penalty for catching what American police forces call a perpetrator . |
| 10 | Undoubtedly that takes much time , and the GKN Group is to be congratulated for encouraging its senior executives to play such an important part in an organisation that achieves such excellent work in Shropshire . |
| 11 | Although she enjoys the aesthetic value of wild flowers , her reason for encouraging their widespread growth is principally scientific . |
| 12 | That Wright is ultimately responsible for handling his short fuse and , to help him do that , think back to the hundreds of games he 's played when there has been no trouble . |
| 13 | And yet there is now a way in which a small business can introduce ‘ new technology ’ methods for producing its internal documentation , manuals , price lists , brochures , indeed anything that previously would have been sent to a designer or printshop . |
| 14 | If his taxes did deter hard work , the economy would wilt , jobs would be lost and he and his colleagues would run short of the tax revenue for financing their favourite causes . |
| 15 | There used to be techniques for keeping your personal space personal ; the sort of essential info that every seasoned traveller knows . |
| 16 | Fibre is not only vital for keeping your digestive system and bowels healthy , it can help to make you feel full up . |
| 17 | It will also provide you with a helpful forum for explaining your particular needs , and your views on the process and content of education . |
| 18 | SWINDLING Baroness Cecilia de Stempel slipped out of jail early yesterday after serving less than 2 1/2 years of her seven-year sentence for cheating her aged aunt out of her fortune . |
| 19 | A GIRL was yesterday jailed for five years for stabbing her teenage love rival to death . |
| 20 | So did women — but more , they admired her : for being pregnant with Tyson while her first record climbed the charts ; for cradling her two-month infant through ‘ Manchild ’ ; then for celebrating all of that on ‘ Inner City Mamma ’ , a song dedicated to the strength of working mothers . |
| 21 | In this section it will be argued that , since industrial relations form part of the overall texture of state enterprise activity , the logic of public enterprises provides a starting point for understanding their industrial relations . |
| 22 | This aspect of Richards 's thought is not so important for understanding his literary theory , since , as we have seen , he associated poetry with the emotive , not the referential , use of language . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , intending hopper Andy Hutchings , from York , has taken us to task for defining his other passion ‘ gricing ’ as train spotting . |
| 24 | High Wycombe , Buckinghamshire-based Insignia Solutions Ltd was recognised for developing its widely-used SoftPC program that emulates the MS-DOS environment used on the IBM personal computer on incompatible Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes , and workstations from the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and Digital Equipment Corp ; and S&S International Ltd , Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire , gained an award for its Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit , which employs fuzzy logic to combat the most complex computer viruses . |
| 25 | The next five examples contain further ideas for developing your interval-playing facility . |
| 26 | Do you use your notes for developing your historical understanding as well as for recording historical information ? |
| 27 | In an alcove , which could be shut off from the main room , near a window , was a small writing table which the Empress used for writing her personal letters . |
| 28 | A serious issue indeed for the Committee given that literature is to be the central instrument for furthering its cultural programme . |
| 29 | Clearly , there was a need for improving its forward-firing weaponry . |
| 30 | A number of student ‘ tides ’ were underway which can be seen as forms of adaptive behaviour or strategies for improving their social position , either temporarily or on a more permanent basis . |